2 Timothy 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:98-99
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. …
Luke 24:45
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; …
2 Peter 1:20-21
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-17)

Here the apostle, to confirm Timothy in that way wherein he walked, I. Sets before him his own example, which Timothy had been an eye-witness of, having long attended Paul (2 Tim. 3:10): Thou hast fully known my doctrine. The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ and the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it; the reason why many sit loose to it is because they do not fully know it.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. from a child--literally, “from an infant.” The tender age of the first dawn of reason is that wherein the most lasting impressions of faith may be made. holy scriptures--The Old Testament taught by his Jewish mother. An undesigned coincidence with 2Ti 1:5; Ac 16:1-3. able--in themselves: though through men’s own fault they often do not in fact make men savingly alive. wise unto salvation--that…